Ana-karina Schneider, "Studies in the Rhetoric of Fiction"
English | 2015 | pages: 201 | ISBN: 1443877131 | PDF | 1,9 mb
Studies in the Rhetoric of Fiction investigates the contemporary novel's relation to its forerunners, the picaresques, romances and sentimental novels of the 18th century. Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne and Jane Austen are stable landmarks, while, of the contemporary practitioners, a handful recur from one chapter to the next, particularly Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro. The chapters share an interest in the rhetoric of fiction, broadly understood as the way in which fictional works achieve their effects on readers, whether by directly addressing a hypothetical reader, using irony and parody, orchestrating competitions between divergent narratives, imitating musical structures, inviting intertextual readings, or openly taking issue with traditional conventions and expectations. Chapters focusing on narrative strategy and metanarrative comment, therefore, alternate with those interrogating reading practices and readerly participation in the rhetorical interchange.

Stone Circles: Around the World by Hugh Newman
English | October 9, 2018 | ISBN: 1635573041, 190426395X | True PDF | 64 pages | 17.9 MB
In this beautifully illustrated book, Hugh Newman takes us on a fascinating journey around the world, examining mysterious stone circles of the megalithic culture.

Sport Injury Prevention Anatomy by David Potach, Erik Meira
English | June 15, 2022 | ISBN: 1718208286 | True EPUB | 232 pages | 67.6 MB
Develop a body that can withstand the rigorous pressures of competitive sport and physical activity! Sport Injury Prevention Anatomy offers you a detailed look into some of the most common sport injury conditions and the best exercises to help prevent their occurrence.

Mary Warnock, "Special Educational Needs: A New Look Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 144118015X | 2010 | 184 pages | PDF | 1337 KB
Special Educational Needs: A New Look by Mary Warnock was initially published by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain in 2005. In this new edition, Warnock has updated her argument, Brahm Norwich has contributed a counter-argument and Lorella Terzi has provided an introduction and afterword, drawing the two debates together.

Software Reliability Methods By Doron A. Peled
2001 | 343 Pages | ISBN: 1441928766 | PDF | 7 MB
Many books focus on increasing the quality of software through the use of formal methods. However, most books embrace one particular method, and present it as the suggested solution for the software reliability problem. This book presents a wider picture of formal methods, through a collection of notations and techniques. It compares them, and discusses their advantages and disadvantages. One of the main challenges of formal methods is in transferring the tech nology developed by researchers to the software development community. Re cently, we seem to be starting to have a better understanding of the important ingredients of formal methods tools. This manifests itself in the growing ac ceptance of such tools in the software and hardware development industry. Ideally, formal methods need to be intuitive to use (preferably using graphi cal interfaces), do not impose on the user an extensive learning period, and incur only small overhead to the development process. Formal methods are much more acceptable today than ten or twenty years ago, in particular in the hardware industry. Yet there is still a lively contention between different approaches.

Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place by Robert Michael Pyle
English | January 26, 2021 | ISBN: 1640092781 | 227 pages | PDF | 4.31 Mb
An ecologist reflects on the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest as he describes the lives of plants, animals, and humans through every season of the year during his thirty years in the village of Gray's River, near the mouth of the Columbia River-long out of print, this classic of nature writing is being given a new life in trade paperback with a new afterword by the author.

Ann G. Smolen, "Six Children: The Spectrum of Child Psychopathology and its Treatment"
English | 2015 | pages: 181 | ISBN: 178220282X, 0367326965 | PDF | 1,3 mb
Theoretically anchored and historically informed, Six Children is a book about the nuances of child psychoanalysis as these unfold in the encounter with different forms of early life anguish. Addressing autistic, homeless, and despondent children on the one hand, and greedy, betrayed, and angry children on the other, the book attempts to integrate developmental deficits, intrapsychic conflicts, and constitutional givens in evolving a deeper understanding of both severe and milder psychopathology. Ample clinical illustrations are provided and technical interventions pertinent to each of these situations are carefully fleshed out. Equal attention is given to holding and interpretation, family intervention and individual focus, and affect management and mentalization. The fact that the six main chapters of the book are sandwiched between a careful review and update of the field of child analysis makes the book especially suited for being used as a teaching tool in didactic curricula. A comprehensive and carefully selected bibliography imparts the book a scholarly quality, which exists alongside the text's literary and humane cadence.

Tamara L. Chilver, "Simplify Your Homeschool Day: Shorten Your Day, Sweeten Your Time"
English | ISBN: 149092826X | 2013 | 98 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 372 KB + 423 KB
What if you and your children could have more time pursuing your passions? As a former elementary teacher and tutor and a veteran home educator of 15 years, Tamara Chilver has discovered over 100 simple teaching tips that have dramatically shortened her children's homeschool day. These tips have also directly impacted her teaching to make it a much more effective process. Now her family is able to spend more time focusing on their passions. In Simplify Your Homeschool Day, you will learn: *Practical tips that can save you hours of teaching, planning, and grading each week; *Effective communication techniques that can eliminate frustration and dramatically impact your child's learning; *When you should enlist help; *Creative learning strategies that can be applied on the go; and *How to pursue your own passions. These time-saving tips will increase your child's enjoyment of learning by reducing the time it takes him to complete school work without decreased learning. Put some extra time back into your day right away!

Katherine Fusco, "Silent Film and U.S. Naturalist Literature: Time, Narrative, and Modernity"
English | 2016 | pages: 223 | ISBN: 1138183482, 0367876396 | PDF | 2,0 mb
Typically, studies of early cinema's relation to literature have focused on the interactions between film and modernism. When film first emerged, however, it was naturalism, not modernism, competing for the American public's attention. In this media ecosystem, the cinema appeared alongside the works of authors including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jack London, and Frank Norris. Drawing on contemporaneous theories of time and modernity as well as recent scholarship on film, narrative, and naturalism, this bookmoves beyond traditional adaptation studies approaches to argue that both naturalism and the early cinema intervened in the era's varying experiments with temporality and time management. Specifically, it shows that American naturalist novels are constructed around a sustained formal and thematic interrogation of the relationship between human freedom and temporal inexorability and that the early cinema developed its norms in the context of naturalist experiments with time. The book identifies the silent cinema and naturalist novel's shared privileging of narrative progress over character development as a symbolic solution to social and aesthetic concerns ranging from systems of representation, to historiography, labor reform, miscegenation, and birth control. This volume thus establishes the dynamic exchange between silent film and naturalism, arguing that in the products of this exchange, personality figures as excess bogging down otherwise efficient narratives of progress. Considering naturalist authors and a diverse range of early film genres, this is the first book-length study of the reciprocal media exchanges that took place when the cinema was new. It will be a valuable resource to those with interests in Adaptation Studies, American Literature, Film History, Literary Naturalism, Modernism, and Narrative Theory.

Andrew Fowler, "Shooting the Messenger: Criminalising Journalism"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138296619, 1138296600 | 244 pages | AZW3 / MOBI | 1.1 MB
If the Al-Qaeda terrorists who attacked the United States in 2001 wanted to weaken the West, they achieved their mission by striking a blow at the heart of democracy.